DISCHARGING OF ORDNANCE, III 



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Conclusion qf the Experiments upon the Nature 

 of Flame ; to which are added several sugges- 

 Hons for future Inquiry, 



heist first I offered a few remarks upon the 

 experiments performed with the new fulminating 

 powder, I promised to examine the cause of the 

 various phenomena which I then stated had occur- 

 red, with the view of laying the whole before the 

 Society. I have already done so with regard to all 

 the experiments* except those which exhibited the 

 very unexpected result of the flame occasionally 

 passing through some gunpowder Without firing it. 

 I have now, therefore* to notice more fully this cir- 

 cumstance. 



Experiment 24— I have repeated the experi- 

 ments mentioned in my former paper, which pre- 

 sented this curious result of the flame passing 

 through a quantity of gunpowder placed at a, b 9 

 or c, without inflaming it. The result, however, is 

 by no means regular in its occurrence ; sometimes 

 I found it to succeed in three successive trials ; at 

 other times I have failed four or five times before I 



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